Because maybe these strangers feel that pornography and masturbation is most of their daily schedules? Or they feel that they perform said actions too frequently.
Besides, a little abstinence from pornography never hurt anyone. OP, y'know, count me in, I guess.
Day 1 is tomorrow, yaaayyy.

Or a few strangers trying to feel good about doing some stupid bullshit instead of, Oh, I don't know, cutting back a little like a normal person?

Just do it after the day before bed for fucks sake. Then you won't be wasting useful time.

You can drop addictions authentically and permanently in a second if you figure out causality.

That's why I advocate that instead of putting huge amounts of effort into what amounts to nothing more than covering up symptoms.

Of course you have to set an objective. You can't just tell yourself "alright I will lose 40 kilos in 4 months" while thinking "i still crave for cookies, and after I finish I will eat one a day instead two"

It would be like losing weight for the society, because the general view on this is that people should not be obese, thus should lose weight. So you'd not be losing weight for yourself, but for others. Change that principle and you're on to be a winner.

For me, it's a try to change my life. I'm 23, never had a girlfriend, never had sex either, I'm a bit overweight and I'm way less social than I want to be.
This served to me as a wake-up call, to try to get my life back on track.

I know that stop fapping to porn will NOT just magically get me a girl. It will not solve any of my problems all by itself. I KNOW that. But it's a first step to try to change me.

Also, I'm in no way going "PORN SHOULD BE BANNED" or "FAPPING IS NOT HEALTHY". Both things have a point and I don't want to tell anyone they should stop it.

If I am successful with this, hur-fucking-ray. Awesome. If not, at least I tried it, and I can always go back to jerking off 4-5 times a day.

For me, it's a try to change my life. I'm 23, never had a girlfriend, never had sex either, I'm a bit overweight and I'm way less social than I want to be.
This served to me as a wake-up call, to try to get my life back on track.

I know that stop fapping to porn will NOT just magically get me a girl. It will not solve any of my problems all by itself. I KNOW that. But it's a first step to try to change me.

Also, I'm in no way going "PORN SHOULD BE BANNED" or "FAPPING IS NOT HEALTHY". Both things have a point and I don't want to tell anyone they should stop it.

If I am successful with this, hur-fucking-ray. Awesome. If not, at least I tried it, and I can always go back to jerking off 4-5 times a day.

Because maybe these strangers feel that pornography and masturbation is most of their daily schedules? Or they feel that they perform said actions too frequently.
Besides, a little abstinence from pornography never hurt anyone. OP, y'know, count me in, I guess.
Day 1 is tomorrow, yaaayyy.

jesus fucking christ there's this thing called self control you know, we're not saying MASTURBATE ALL DAY ERRY DAY we're saying you should masturbate and watch porn in a healthy amount

For me, it's a try to change my life. I'm 23, never had a girlfriend, never had sex either, I'm a bit overweight and I'm way less social than I want to be.
This served to me as a wake-up call, to try to get my life back on track.

I know that stop fapping to porn will NOT just magically get me a girl. It will not solve any of my problems all by itself. I KNOW that. But it's a first step to try to change me.

Also, I'm in no way going "PORN SHOULD BE BANNED" or "FAPPING IS NOT HEALTHY". Both things have a point and I don't want to tell anyone they should stop it.

If I am successful with this, hur-fucking-ray. Awesome. If not, at least I tried it, and I can always go back to jerking off 4-5 times a day.

If you don't like this whole thing, why are you even here?

I'm sort of in the same situation. I am 19 never had a girlfriend and never had sex. If this whole "no porn" thing ends up working I will be a happy man, other wise I will go back to watching porn. Having neither is going to be a bitch for a while. Hopefully I'll get desperate enough I'll talk to some girls and ask one out.

Maybe we should change this to don't watch porn more than once a week, because this is seriously fucking hard..

I think watching it once a week would be safe and acceptable, but if it's hard for you to quit then you may want to go longer without porn before you decide to reduce yourself to watching it once a week so you don't get into the habit of watching porn + jacking off again, and begin doing it more and more without even noticing.

I've been in an overall better mood since I've stopped looking at porn. I can think more clearly, too.

To be terribly honest this whole thing is extremely subjective
Some people have less self control and are affected less by things like this. You might have masturbated every day and that would have been a terrible thing, but instead of going cold turkey why not just cut back? I've always limited myself to once or twice a week, tops.

Hnnng. Day 5/6, almost broke as usual (Like erryday), had a sex dream also, which was less banging the shit out of something than making love to the person, and I feel blank right now. I don't think getting high yesterday was a good idea, I'm still sort of out-of-it, and feeling very lazy.

To be terribly honest this whole thing is extremely subjective
Some people have less self control and are affected less by things like this. You might have masturbated every day and that would have been a terrible thing, but instead of going cold turkey why not just cut back? I've always limited myself to once or twice a week, tops.

Your avatar makes me laugh at this post so much.

Day 5, shit's all good, wish I could play more Path of Exile but otherwise everything's good. Sauna still gives me the temptation because hurr durr 95 celsius

Will the benefits of this be experienced for those only who look at porn/masturbate multiple times a day or at all? If somebody only indulges themselves once every 2nd or 3rd day, are there still gains to be realized?

Will the benefits of this be experienced for those only who look at porn/masturbate multiple times a day or at all? If somebody only indulges themselves once every 2nd or 3rd day, are their still gains to be realized?

Changes will happen if you believe in this bullshit enough and convince yourself into it, like a placebo.

Will the benefits of this be experienced for those only who look at porn/masturbate multiple times a day or at all? If somebody only indulges themselves once every 2nd or 3rd day, are their still gains to be realized?

Changes will happen if you believe in this bullshit enough and convince yourself into it, like a placebo.

FlubberNugget posted:

It works for certain people, so others then get the idea that it will work for them too, aka placebo

Let's clarify. There's a difference between psychosomatics and placebo.

Placebo's require an authority figure, trusted by an individual, who essentially tricks the person into believing a medicine will be effective.

Psychosomatics on the other hand are willingly partaken in with the knowledge that IT IS a psychosomatic treatment and thus can be as effective as one believes.

I hate the idea that such treatments are 'homoeopathic', 'less effective', or 'alternative' just because some physical change is not made to the body through intrusive surgery or pacifying drugs.

Let's look at a few:

Anxiety, depression, anger, negative mental states, bad thoughts, self-limiting beliefs, diet, and thousands of other things (some of these are causal as well, like poor diet leading to ill health) all arose through mental conditioning.

Entertaining the notion that somehow you're going to forcefully purge thoughts out of your head using medicine is completely insane.

Honestly, the only thing that makes sense is combating described negative mental functioning that arose naturally, with something to the contrary which also arose naturally, albeit by choice, AKA self-facilitated psychosomatics.